MEDICINE - Key Dates

Question 1

What year did the Black Death arrive in Britain?

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

Printing press invented

Answer 2

1440

Question 3

Dissolution of Monasteries

Answer 3

1536

Question 4

Vesalius’ fabric of the human body

Answer 4

1543

Question 5

William Harvey’s book on circulation pubished

Answer 5

1628

Question 6

Great Plague arrives in England

Answer 6

1665

Question 7

Thomas Sydenham publishes “Observations Medicae”

Answer 7

1676

Question 8

Edward Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine

Answer 8

1796-98

Question 9

Florence Nightingale treats soldiers in the Crimean War

Answer 9

1854-56

Question 10

John Snow discovers cholera’s transmitted using the broad street pump

Answer 10

1854

Question 11

Germ Theory Published by Louis Pasteur

Answer 11

1861

Question 12

Joseph Lister uses carbolic acid as an antiseptic

Answer 12

1865

Question 13

Robert Koch prints his 4 hypothesis (Tuberculosis microbe found by Microscope)

Answer 13

1882

Question 14

William Rontgen discovered XRAYS

Answer 14

1895

Question 15

RAMC founded

Answer 15

1898

Question 16

Paul Ehrlich discovers first magic bullet “Salversan 606”

Answer 16

1909-10

Question 17

Gas attacks begin in WW1

Answer 17

1915

Question 18

Blood depots used at the battle of Cambrai

Answer 18

1917

Question 19

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

Answer 19

1928

Question 20

Second magic bullet discoverd “Prontosil”

Answer 20

1932

Question 21

Florey and Chain develop penicillin

Answer 21

1941

Question 22

NHS launched

Answer 22

1948

Question 23

Franklin, Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

Answer 23

1953

Question 24

Clean Air Act passed

Answer 24

1956

Question 25

Great Stink

Answer 25

1858

Question 26

Geoffrey Hounsfield created CAT scans - create 3D images of human body.

Answer 26

1972

Question 27

Endoscope Probes developed to look inside body

Answer 27

1976

Question 28

MRI Scanning developed

Answer 28

1987

Question 29

Free Vaccines available to be given in the UK

Answer 29

1946-69

Question 30

National Insurance Act Introduced to provided those in employment sick pay.

Answer 30

1911

It provided those with employment sick pay.
However, if you were unemployed you were not guaranteed healthcare.

Question 31

Health ads put on packets of cigarettes

Answer 31

2016

Question 32

Clean Air Act passed

Answer 32

1956 / 68

Question 33

The Beveridge report is passed by William Beveridge.

Answer 33

1942

Question 34

Khaki Election

Labour win in a landslide despite the conservative opponents carrying Britain through the war.

Answer 34

1945

Question 35

The London Smog

Answer 35

1952

Question 36

Tuberculosis microbe discovered by Koch

Answer 36

1882

Question 37

What year was the sewer system completed?

Answer 37

1875